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Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures By:"Stamatina Th. Rassia","Panos M. Pardalos" Published on 2013-08-15 by Springer Science & Business Media E-book Library:"Business & Economics" Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures presents works written by eminent international experts from a variety of disciplines including architecture, engineering and related fields. Due to the ever-increasing focus on sustainable technologies, alternative energy sources, and global social and urban issues, interest in the energy systems for cities of the future has grown in a wealth of disciplines. Some of the special features of this book include new findings on the city of the future from the macro to the micro level. These range from urban sustainability to indoor urbanism, and from strategies for cities and global climate change to material properties. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers active in architecture, engineeri...

A pilot demonstration project of technology application from the aerospace industry to city management (Four Cities Program). By:"George F. Ervin","Lloyd S. Blomeyer" Published on 1972 by E-book Library:"Political Science" This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword city application. Thank you Smart City Guides

Integration of Nature and Technology for Smart Cities By:"Anil Ahuja, PE, RCDD, LEED BD+C, CxA" Published on 2016-03-17 by Springer E-book Library:"Technology & Engineering" This book is a resumption of the work “Integrated M/E Design: Building Systems Engineering” published by Anil Ahuja in 1997. Together with an international group of authors from the engineering, urban planning, and architecture fields, Mr. Ahuja discussed new trends and paradigms in the smart buildings and smart city sectors and extended the topic of the previous publication from the building to the entire city. A smart, sustainable building is not just about the building itself. There are things happening in the inside of the building and on the outside. A smart building connects the inside with the outside, provides efficiencies on both sides, synchronizes the outside infrastructure with its inside systems, and integrates nature and its occupants in its design. A smart building doesn’t jus...

The Creative Capital of Cities By:"Stefan Krätke" Published on 2012-05-03 by John Wiley & Sons E-book Library:"Social Science" This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative class Presents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data concerning the German urban system and the case study regions, Hanover and Berlin Underscores that the culture industry takes a leading role in conforming with neoliberal conceptions of labor markets This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword city network. Thank you Smart City Guides

Beyond Smart Cities By:"Tim Campbell" Published on 2013-07-03 by Routledge E-book Library:"Architecture" The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on learning and innovation. But to really achieve smart cities – that is to create the conditions of continuous learning and innovation – this book argues that there is a need to understand what is below the surface and to examine the mechanisms which affect the way cities learn and then connect together. This book draws on quantitative and qualitative data with concrete case studies to show how networks already operating in cities are used to foster and strengthen connections in order to achieve breakthroughs in learning and innovation. Going beyond smart cities means understanding how cities construct, convert and manipulate relationships that grow in urban environments. ...

Smart Cities and Homes By:"Mohammad S Obaidat","Petros Nicopolitidis" Published on 2016-05-17 by Morgan Kaufmann E-book Library:"Computers" Smart Cities and Homes: Key Enabling Technologies explores the fundamental principles and concepts of the key enabling technologies for smart cities and homes, disseminating the latest research and development efforts in the field through the use of numerous case studies and examples. Smart cities use digital technologies embedded across all their functions to enhance the wellbeing of citizens. Cities that utilize these technologies report enhancements in power efficiency, water use, traffic congestion, environmental protection, pollution reduction, senior citizens care, public safety and security, literacy rates, and more. This book brings together the most important breakthroughs and advances in a coherent fashion, highlighting the interconnections between the works in different areas of computing, exploring both new...

American Cities and Technology By:"Gerrylynn K. Roberts","Philip Steadman" Published on 2005-11-01 by Routledge E-book Library:"Science" Designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the American Cities and Technology textbook. Chronologically, this volume ranges from the earliest technological dimensions of Amerindian settlements to the 'wired city' concept of the 1960s and internet communications of the 1990s.Its focus extends beyond the US to include telecomunications in Asian cities in the late 20th century. The topics covered: * the rise of the skyscraper *the coming of the automobile age * relations between private and public transport * the development of infrastructural technologies and systems * the implications of electronic communications * the emergence of city planning. This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword city technology. Thank you Smart City Guides

Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance By:"Sofie Bouteligier" Published on 2012-12-12 by Routledge E-book Library:"Political Science" As a result of global dynamics—the increasing interconnection of people and places—innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet. This book is a timely study of the importance of these social transformations in our increasingly global and increasingly urban world. Through analysis of transnational municipal networks, such as Metropolis and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Sofie Bouteligier's innovative study examines theories of the network society and global cities from a global ecology perspective. Through direct observation and interviews and using two types of city networks that have been treated separately in the literature, she discovers the structure and logic pertaining to office networks of environmental non-governmental organizat...

Cities in the International Marketplace By:"H. V. Savitch","Paul Kantor","Serena Haddock Vicari" Published on 2002 by Princeton University Press E-book Library:"Political Science" Does globalization menace cities? This text looks at the political responses of ten cities in North America and Western Europe as they grappled with the forces of global restructuring since 1972. It concludes that cities do have choices in city building and that they behave strategically. This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword city challenge. Thank you Smart City Guides

Atlas of Cities By:"Paul Knox" Published on 2014-08-24 by Princeton University Press E-book Library:"Business & Economics" Examines different cities from all over the world and looks at their physical, economic, social, and political structure, as well as their relationships to each other and where future urbanization might be headed. This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword city network. Thank you Smart City Guides

Smart Cities, Green Technologies, and Intelligent Transport Systems By:"Markus Helfert","Karl-Heinz Krempels","Cornel Klein","Brian Donnellan","Oleg Gusikhin" Published on 2016-01-06 by Springer E-book Library:"Computers" This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2015, and the 1st International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, VEHITS 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2015. The 15 full papers of SMARTGREENS 2015 presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. VEHITS 2015 received 27 paper submissions from which 3 papers were selected and published in this book. The papers reflect topics such as smart cities, energy-aware systems and technologies, sustainable computing and communications, sustainable transportation and smart mobility. This Book was ranked 8 by Google ...

Smart Cities as a Solution for Reducing Urban Waste and Pollution By:"Hua, Goh Bee" Published on 2016-06-20 by IGI Global E-book Library:"Technology & Engineering" The exponential growth of urban settings has led to an increase in pollutants and waste management issues around the world. As the environment continues to falter under the weight of these pressing issues, it has become increasingly imperative to develop new technologies and methodologies that have the potential to improve the overall sustainability and cleanliness of these cities. Smart Cities as a Solution for Reducing Urban Waste and Pollution examines emergent research on smart innovations within built urban environments. Featuring best practices and theoretical frameworks, as well as potential issues in the implementation of smart and green technology in urban settings, this publication is a vital reference source for graduate students, researchers, academics, engineers, architects, facility mana...

Digital Cities By:"Toru Ishida","Katherine Isbister" Published on 2003-06-26 by Springer E-book Library:"Computers" On the way towards the Information Society, global networks such as the Internet, together with mobile computing, have made wide-area computing over virtual communities a reality. Digital city projects, with the goal of building platforms to support community networking, are going on worldwide. This is the first book devoted to digital cities. It is based on an international symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1999. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book; they reflect the state of the art in this exciting new field of interdisciplinary research and development. The book is divided into parts on design and analysis, digital city experiments, community network experiments, applications, visualization technologies, mobile technologies, and social interaction and communityware. This Book wa...

South African Cities Network Urban Development Incentives 2008 By:"Silimela Development Services (South Africa)","South African Cities Network" Published on 2008 by E-book Library:"City planning" This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword city network. Thank you Smart City Guides

Gospel for the Cities By:"Benjamin Tonna" Published on 2004-10-28 by Wipf and Stock Publishers E-book Library:"Religion" This Book was ranked 15 by Google Books for keyword city solution. Thank you Smart City Guides

Sustainable Cities and Energy Policies By:"Roberta Capello","Peter Nijkamp","Gerard Pepping" Published on 2012-12-06 by Springer Science & Business Media E-book Library:"Business & Economics" The aim of this book is to highlight the great potential of decentralized (i.e. local or urban) energy policies in achieving environmentally-benign developments for modern cities. Urban sustainability is placed in the context of the debate on global sustainable development. A wide array of policy initiatives is discussed and evaluated, ranging from market-based energy policies to technological innovation policies for the energy sector. A theoretical framework for technology adoption processes is developed and empirically tested. The main question addressed is: which are the critical success factors for successful urban energy policies? This question is also dealt with in a meta-analytic context by assessing and comparing the performance of energy pol...

Transforming Cities By:"Nick Jewson","Susan MacGregor" Published on 2005-06-28 by Routledge E-book Library:"Social Science" This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns of urban deprivation and social exclusion. These processes, they contend, are creating new patterns of social division and new forms of regulation and control. This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword city challenge. Thank you Smart City Guides

IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities Administration Guide By:"Bhowmick Arundhati","Eduardo Francellino","Luis Glehn","Robert Loredo","Pam Nesbitt","Shi Wei Yu","Sunil Mishr","IBM Redbooks" Published on 2012-11-30 by IBM Redbooks E-book Library:"Computers" IBM® defines a smarter city as one that makes optimal use of all available information to better understand and control its operations and optimize the use of resources. There is much information available from different sources. However, city officials often lack the holistic view of the city's operations that is required to respond to the citizens' needs in a timely manner and use the city resources wisely. IBM Intelligent Operations Center delivers a unified view of city agencies, providing three primary elements for successful management of cities: use information, anticipate problems, and coordinate actions and resour...